At least six people killed in Ukrainian missile attack on Russia’s Belgorod

What the report says

At least six people were killed and four others, including a 14-year-old, were wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod region, according to Al Jazeera’s report. The attack hit the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district on Monday, regional acting governor Alexander Shuvaev said on the Russian state-backed MAX platform. He said a structure burned and a vehicle was damaged. Koloskovo is about 15 kilometers from Ukraine’s northeastern border.

The report said the strike came during a night of Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, which killed at least four people and injured 19. Those attacks were reported in several regions, including Zaporizhia, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Odesa. Ukrainian authorities said a port infrastructure site in the Izmail district was targeted and that fires were extinguished after a strike damaged a Togo-flagged civilian vessel.

Al Jazeera noted that the latest exchange of attacks followed a day of cross-border strikes that killed 19 people in both countries. It also said the war has seen a sharp rise in civilian deaths amid stalled front-line fighting and frozen US-backed peace efforts. More broadly, the reporting described a pattern of intensified missile and drone attacks by both sides, with Ukraine increasingly targeting Russian economic assets and Russia continuing near-daily strikes since its full-scale invasion began in 2022.